GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MOTOR KKLIAIfILUY OUALS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Che chief prize in the recently-held tor reliability trial was won by lams, Ltd., with a 13-h.p. Talbot. Th« me firm also secured a number of other fees with cars of the same make. The ize for the highest number of marks r reliability was won hy A. Morten's ih,p. fiiddelcy. The prize for the car wing the lowest consumption of fuel ten mile was won by Adamß, Ltd.'s, !0-h.p. French Talbot. The silver, cup lued at £105) for private owner's making the highest aggregate marks won by Geo. abodes' 12-20-h.p. Ket. ' ijE PREMIER IN THE SOUTH. t Invercargill, Last Night. It the Blurt on Kridoy, the Premier i presented with a silver service, inibeij, bjf his friends in the southern tion of his electorate, to celebrate having completed 21 years as reprotative in Parliament for Awarua. Sir eph Ward attended the regatta yesday, and will leave for the North by i first impress ou Monday. ITIILAXD CALEDONIAN IMPORTS. lnvercaigill, Lust Night. el Caledonian sports concluded on unsatisfactory weather, i'he l'dance, howc\cr, w.is good, and ft) wan taken at the gates, which, h> JBSOO'on the Hist day, will make l< meeting a financial success, though {prize money totalled £350. The big it, the Caledonian Handicap, was 1 Kby Baird, a local runner. McLacha competed a*t^ftinceting^^|^H

ea * AasoelaWon. Napier, Last Night TT telephone message from Wairoa • itates that a block of buildings there ,va» totally destroyed by fire between ;wo and half-past two o'clock this mornng. The buildings destroyod were those jccupied by the East Coast Mail newspaper, damage about £800; Chapman, lraper, damage about £Boojvßroa4 and. distrain, chemists, damage not » tete »! nd Holt, builder, damage afcout JSIOOO. Nothing was saved, and the total damgc is estimated at about £7OOO. 'Xhera vas a change of wind at about 3 o'clock, itherwise the destruction would nave lecn much greater. «.' Christcliurcli, Last Night. '■ An old wooden two-storey building used as a Chinese laundry was totalljj destroyed by lire at 2.15 this morning. The occupants, two Chinese, just gob out in time. The building was owned by T. Dixon, and was insured in the .South British for £l5O. ~ Dannevirkc, Last Night. At about,o p.m. on Saturday a fire ociirred in Wylic and Oo.'s premises oq> ertpM by J. J- Patterson, solicitor, R. G. Patterson and Co., land and estate agents and accountants, and Wylio and' Co., grocers. The Are apparently started in the office of J. J. Patterson from some unknown cause, and obtained a Him hold in that portion of the building and spread to the upper storey. The brigade was quickly on the *eene\ and quickly Bubdued the names, al« though a gale was blowing and soriom > damage was anticipated. R. G. Patterson and Co. suffered from water, and ,Wylie nnd Co. lose about £2O through water. The premises are in the estate of .1. .T. Patterson, bankrupt, and the) business of Wylic and Co. belongs to thß estate. R. G. Patterson and Co. have nothing to do with the bankruptcy beyond occupying the office*.. The. insur- • aiices are not available. Auckland, Last Night A Arc occurred on Saturday aight aboard the Northern Company's steamer VVitimarie, which was lying at the wharf. The fire is supposed to havo started in tho galley, and with great rapidity! spread to the pantry and saloon, all the fittings of which were destroyed, the interior of the vessel now presenting a very charred appearance. The engine* or cargo were not damaged.